As a quick reply, to all those saying that you should play the spec you are most familiar with over the spec that's the best because you will 'theoretically' get more dps out of it.

No. Your a warlock, you should know all 3 specs, in and out, and be ready to switch at any moment required whether its for better survivabilty, you need burst at this one particular moment for the raid even if its a personal dps loss to you, better CC, etc etc. If you don't know how to play all 3 specs then you should spend some time on a dummy and learn them, don't be bad.

When people are spamming rain of fire and havoc chaos bolts on protectors and then people are referencing those logs and arguing for it's competitiveness I find that laughable. Padding on a single target fight doesn't mean it's outperforming other specs when a large bulk of your damage is fluff. Yes players can take a a slightly under performing spec compared to the other 2 and play it at a very high level and make a case for a specs usefulness ,but using protectors is down right silly with some of the logs I've seen in this thread.

When people are spamming rain of fire and havoc chaos bolts on protectors and then people are referencing those logs and arguing for it's competitiveness I find that laughable. Padding on a single target fight doesn't mean it's outperforming other specs when a large bulk of your damage is fluff. Yes players can take a a slightly under performing spec compared to the other 2 and play it at a very high level and make a case for a specs usefulness ,but using protectors is down right silly with some of the logs I've seen in this thread.

Stone Guards: Affli
Feng: Affli normal, HC demo
Garajal: Affli
Spirit kings: Affli
Elegon: Affli
Will of the Emperor: Debatable, on normal I played demo, but once we started on HC mode I went affliction as we completely ignore the adds.

Personally with the way we're doing the debuff on lei shi I tend to do better in demo as I can put out a decent chunk of burst while moving and taking less dmg since I dont have to pop burning rush during get away where I'm already taking massive dmg from get away + the dot.

Tbh I think your raids strategy is going to effect how you're doing in what spec per encounter as much as any spec could potentially perform.

But yeah generally speaking affliction is a safe bet.

After 5.1 changes you can move and not lose damage in Affliction also. That 30% speed debuff is not a problem at Lei Shi at all now.

Wind lord normal: demo, heroic: destro (under recklesssness I can burst insane with CD's, had up to 900k dps with 7 million chaos bolts and keeping rain of fire + FaB immolate up 90%+ of the time.

900k real time dps seems quite weak. Personally I am hitting at least 2-2.5 million dps on the first recklessness as demo. All 3 specs seem quite even on that fight though, and spec choice all comes down to how your raid decides to do the fight.

The lock in my raid that usually played Demo said his pet didn't get the buff. There isn't much interest to play Demo on this fight, so he switched Aff to help on the slows. Destro is pretty strong if you are going to be an add-killer and there other players assigned to the slows (1 Aff should be enough).

The lock in my raid that usually played Demo said his pet didn't get the buff. There isn't much interest to play Demo on this fight, so he switched Aff to help on the slows. Destro is pretty strong if you are going to be an add-killer and there other players assigned to the slows (1 Aff should be enough).

That is correct. It's the reason hunters don't play BM for that fight, since their pet doesn't gain from the buff either. You would be much better off (like Zumzum said) either going Aff and being the slow-bitch or being destro. I'd say both are definitely viable however I'd wager that you'd be better off being aff with CoEx glyphed and being the slow bitch since it's the "best" on demand slow (70% vs every other slow being 50%, other than rogues shiving which is dumb idea IMO).

I prefer Destro.....but, Affl is doing the best DPS in MoP atm. Although, we may see a bunch of Affl fans going Destro because of the new green fire in patch 5.2. Loads of people out there love their eye candy.

I prefer Destro.....but, Affl is doing the best DPS in MoP atm. Although, we may see a bunch of Affl fans going Destro because of the new green fire in patch 5.2. Loads of people out there love their eye candy.